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Naviance Student Overview Reference Guide

Overview Naviance Student makes it easier than ever for you to answer the questions that will shape your future: Who am I? What do I want to be? How will I get there? How will I succeed?

Naviance Student is a mobile-responsive site that employs intuitive tools that personalize and simplify the college and career planning process.

Accessing Naviance Student 1. CCPS Students log into Canvas

2. Click on Resources (bottom left)

3. Click on Naviance (no username or password is required)

a. All students Grade 5 to Grade 12 have preassigned tasks on their Home Page under Important Tasks & To Do’s

Navigation Tips

Static Toolbar

1. Language Menu (only applies to custom content that your school

has provided in one of the listed languages)

2. Provide Feedback about Naviance Student

3. Email Inbox & Notifications

4. Navigation Menu (Including Log Out) – from mobile devices

Menus The Naviance Student menus are mobile-responsive and will adjust based on the device you are using.

When accessing a menu, there are direct access links, and second-level links that bring you to more options.

This is an example of the Colleges menu from a mobile device.

This is an example of the menu from a tablet, laptop, or desktop.

Content Cards The new interface makes use of content cards that are identified by a title and show corresponding information. The content card layout improves mobile compatibility. Depending on what information is in the card, you may see an option at the bottom of the card to read more, see more, or perform an action. Expect to see this general structure on most pages.



The Home Page

Welcome Card: A custom message from your school.

My Favorites: Quick access to your Colleges I’m Thinking About, Colleges I’m Applying To, and Careers and Clusters I’m Thinking About.

Important To-Dos and Tasks: Drawing from your planner, get a snippet of overdue and upcoming to-do items and tasks.

What’s New: View upcoming college visits, new journal entries shared by a counselor or teacher, and any new comments on course plans, tasks, and goals made by someone other than you.

Resources to Get Ready: Everyday access to Document Resources -documents shared by the school with all students. This area also provides access to Test Prep, x2VOL, and Curriculum if your school uses them.

From My School: From this section, find a list of links, pages, and updates provided by your school. Use View all from my school to see a full list.



Colleges Home



Colleges Home

Find Your Fit SuperMatch™ College Search: Receive a list of best-fit schools based on criteria that you deem as important in your college search.

College Match: See and quickly favorite the other schools that students are applying to when they have also applied to a school from your favorites list. Additionally, check out other colleges that have accepted students with stats like your own.

Scattergrams: A graph used to help you analyze how you fit in with other students from your high school who have been accepted or denied admittance to a school based on GPA and test scores.

Advanced College Search: Using multiple categories, answer questions to identify colleges that match your interests and then save the search.

College Lookup: Lookup a school by multiple filters including name, country, state, or college group. Easily favorite colleges using the Heart icon found next to a school name.

Research Colleges

Colleges I’m Thinking About: A list of schools that you have identified as prospects

College Compare: Add schools to compare the average GPA and test scores of students from your high school that have been accepted to that college during a time span.

College Resources: List of external web resources that may be valuable to your college search process.

Acceptance History: An alphabetical list of colleges where someone from your school has been accepted and/or enrolled over a time span.

College Maps: View an interactive map of schools based on a list of different pre-defined criteria. For example, you can see a map of the colleges from your Colleges I’m Thinking About list.

Enrichment Programs: Look for ways to get involved with your community and school, as well as possible internship opportunities and other events to build your experiences.

Apply to Colleges

Colleges I’m Applying To: A list of schools to which you have decided to apply.

Letters of Recommendation: Request new and track existing letter of recommendation requests.

College Events: View a list of colleges that are hosting events and sign up for those of interest.

Manage Transcripts: Add and review transcript requests, as well as view associated fees.

Test Scores: View your key test scores, including SATs. Depending on school permissions, you may be able to add your own test scores.

Scholarships and Money

Scholarships I’m Applying To: A list of scholarships to which you are applying.

Scholarship List: A list of potentially relevant scholarships that you can review and add to your applications list.

Scholarship Match: A list of scholarships that may be a suitable match for you based on scholarship requirements such as gender, ethnicity, GPA, etc.

National Scholarship Search: An external site hosted by Sallie Mae that provides a list of potential scholarship matches based on personal criteria as associated with Naviance Student.

College Visits View a list of college visits.



Careers Home

Careers and Clusters I’m Thinking About: View the careers and clusters that you have added to your favorites.

Career Cluster Finder: Learn what career clusters may be a good match for you based on activities that interest you, personal qualities that you have, and subjects that you enjoy.

Do What You Are: This assessment uses personality types to suggest careers and clusters that might be a good match.

Career Key: Learn about and view careers associated with your Holland interest codes.

Career Interest Profiler: A career interest assessment that will display all your Holland Code matches. Some schools may not have this assessment enabled.

Explore More: Use this button to access the Roadtrip Nation Interview Archive. This archive provides videos of experts sharing stories about different career paths. You can search for a video speaker by interests, themes, leaders and playlists.

Career Assessments: Quickly access and take assessments that can tell you more about yourself and your career interests. Your list may have different assessments as compared to what is shown here. The assessments can also be found on the About Me tab.



About Me Home

Surveys in Progress: See a status indicator of the surveys you currently have in progress and need to complete.

Surveys to Take: See a list of surveys that your school would like you to complete. Click on a survey to get started.

Assessments in Progress: See a status indicator of the assessments you are currently working on and need to complete.

Assessments to Take: See a list of assessments that your school would like you to complete. Click on an assessment to get started.

About Me: View general Account information, build your Resume, view Test Scores, or view/print your full Naviance Student Portfolio.

View and create journal entries for yourself or share them with counselors, teachers or your parents. You can use this area to journal about your experiences, your plans, your essays or anything you want. Documents can be attached to a journal entry.

View documents that a counselor or teacher has chosen to share just with you.

Colleges I’m Thinking About: A list of schools that you have identified as prospects.

Careers and Clusters I’m Thinking About: View the careers and clusters that you have added to your favorites.

Game Plan: If Game Plan displays under postsecondary plans, it is an indicator that your school would like you to fill out a survey about your plans beyond high school.



My Planner Overview

Switch between the Overview, Goals, the To-Do List and Tasks Assigned to you by your school.

Goals: Add your own goals about anything you are interested in achieving. Mark goals complete as you hit them.

To-Do List: Create a list of actions you need to complete.

Tasks Assigned to Me: Important tasks assigned to you by your school.

Recently Completed is a list of the tasks and to-do items that you have recently marked as complete. You can use this location to view the items or change them to incomplete.

Overdue shows a list of tasks and to-do items that are overdue and should be completed as soon as possible.

Use the Upcoming calendar to keep track of and open past and upcoming tasks and to-dos. Switch between the Calendar and List Views for a different visual of the events.



Grade 6

Activity

Completion Trigger Learning Objective

Seme

ster 1

Goal Setting/Transition Skills:

Goal Setting (Naviance Lesson)

Create Goal, Plan, Action (Naviance task – create a goal)

Social Emotional Learning:

Complete Learning Style Inventory (Naviance task)

Optional Independent Activities:

• Defining My Dreams (Naviance lesson) • My Present vs. My Future (Naviance lesson)

College Knowledge:

Research local technical colleges using SuperMatch College Search (Naviance task – SuperMatch College Search)

Student adds a goal (Goal, Plan, Action)

This task is automatically marked complete when the student completes the Learning Style Inventory 2.0 Assessment in Naviance Student. Including if completed prior to the task assignment

The task is automatically marked complete when the student accesses the SuperMatch college search in Naviance Student

Students will:

- Learn about Naviance Student and its role in their college and career readiness planning process

- Learn about the experience of others as they set, work towards, and accomplish their goals

- Create personal and academic goals and identify how they will achieve their goals

- Begin to explore colleges that interest them



Seme

ster 2

Social Emotional Learning:

Self Confidence (Naviance lesson)


End of year reflection on Goal Plan Action (Naviance task – complete a survey)

Manually mark completed by staff

Student completes a survey (GPA Goal-Setting End of Year Reflection – Grade 6)

Students will:

- Reflect on their 6th grade year and prepare for 7th grade

Grade 7

Activity




Seme

ster 1



College Knowledge:

FGCU Pre-Assessment Survey (Naviance task – complete a survey)


Career Knowledge:

Career Key Assessment (Naviance task)


Student completes a survey (Pre-FGCU Visit Student Survey)

This task is automatically marked complete when the student completes the Career Key assessment in Naviance Student, including if completed prior to task assignment

Students will:

- Learn about Naviance Student and its role in their college and career readiness planning process - Begin to explore and plan for potential careers - Identify interests through the Naviance Career Key Inventory - Learn about the experience of others as they set, work towards, and accomplish their goals - Begin to explore colleges that interest them

Seme

ster 2

College Knowledge:

FGCU Post-Assessment Reflection Survey (Naviance task – complete a survey)


End of year reflection on Goal Plan Action (Naviance task – complete a survey)

Student completes a survey (Post-FGCU Visit Student Survey)

Student completes a survey (7th Grade Written Reflection)

Students will:

- Reflect on their 7th grade year and prepare for 8th grade



Grade 8

Activity


Seme

ster 1


Goal Setting (Naviance Lesson)


Career Knowledge:

Career Cluster Finder (Naviance task)

College Knowledge:



This task is automatically marked complete when the student completes the Career Cluster Finder assessment in Naviance Student, including if completed prior to task assignment

The task is automatically marked complete when the student accesses the SuperMatch college search in Naviance Student

Students will:

- Learn about Naviance Student and its role in their college and career readiness planning process

- Learn about the experience of others as they set, work towards, and accomplished their goals

- Create goals and identify how they will achieve their goals

- Explore career clusters that interest them

- Explore colleges that interest them



Seme

ster 2

Transition Skills/Academic Skills:

My High School Preview (Naviance Lesson)

High School 4 Year Plan (Naviance task – complete a survey)


End of year reflection on GPA (Naviance task – complete a survey)



Student completes a survey (End of Year Reflection on GPA Student Survey)

Students will:

- Reflect on their 8th grade year and prepare for high school

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